“All the evidence is there. It’s just catching him. I just want him to come forward himself and take responsibility for what he’s done because I can’t move on until I feel like I’ve got some sort of closure.

“It’s been 35 years and every day I see his face and I’m reminded of what happened every time I pass the area.

“Relationships have been near-on impossible. I have punished every partner I’ve had.

“I want him to be caught. He has lived a perfectly normal life, I would say, from that day on.

“I want him to lose everything, that’s what he did to me.”

In a police appeal at the time, the attacker was described as a pale-faced man aged 25 to 30, about 5ft 6in tall and of medium build.

He had fair, straight hair parted on the left, a full blond beard and a barely-noticeable moustache and no noticeable accent.